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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
With Emilie Billaud and Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej. Autonomous Vehicles: The Rubber Hits the Road...but When? , Harvard Business School case, 2018. With Alilison Ciechanover, Jeff Huizinga, and James Palano.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
companies, a scaling initiative for ventures at the pre-series A stage, and training for individuals managing other accelerators. The effort is a continuation of the... View Details
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
term scale and scope. Though tractors are now used in nearly every agricultural field operation and in the production of nearly all crops, they... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
strategies at different geographic levels. Assessing the level—global, continental, subcontinental, national, intranational, or local—at which scale is most tightly tied to profitability is often a helpful guide to determining what... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
A., Tom Fangyun Tan, Bradley R. Staats, and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract—To scale service operations requires retrieving knowledge across the organization. However, prior work highlights that individuals on the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
interconnectedness, and complexity. Despite the pressure, Jamie Dimon remained vocal in advocating for the value of a broad scope, large scale financial services firm. However,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- February 2005 (Revised June 2007)
- Case
Unilever in India: Hindustan Lever's Project Shakti--Marketing FMCG to the Rural Consumer
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Rohithari Rajan
With liberalization of India's economy and the opening up of markets to foreign multinationals such as Procter & Gamble, the Indian subsidiary of Unilever--Hindustan Lever Ltd. (HLL)--was under pressure to grow revenues and profits. HLL had a long and stellar record of... View Details
Keywords: Economy; Market Entry and Exit; Business Subsidiaries; Revenue; Profit; Market Participation; Programs; Rural Scope; Poverty; Multinational Firms and Management; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; India
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Rohithari Rajan. "Unilever in India: Hindustan Lever's Project Shakti--Marketing FMCG to the Rural Consumer." Harvard Business School Case 505-056, February 2005. (Revised June 2007.)
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
what my book suggests is that we are not the first to face what seem like overwhelming challenges," says Koehn. "There are a number of moments in the past 150 years when the American people and the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
billion of investor funding between them, three former HBS classmates—Nadiem Makarim of Go-Jek and Anthony Tan and Hooi Ling Tan View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
anticipated benefits of geographic expansion failed to materialize, while other benefits seemed to exceed expectations. Economies of scale were... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
lending portfolio would have to move to the productive sector of the Bolivian economy by 2018, and these loans would have a controlled interest rate View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Impact: Where Science and Business Intersect
The creation, commercialization, and scaling of science-based enterprises will be a crucial segment of the global View Details
- 13 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face
Black venture capital and growth investors have a much harder time getting funding than white investors, because—despite efforts to bring more racial diversity to financial services—private equity’s gatekeepers remain mostly white,... View Details
- 2021
- Working Paper
Going Out or Opting Out? Capital, Political Vulnerability, and the State in China's Outward Investment
By: Meg Rithmire
How do state-business relations interact with outward investment in authoritarian regimes? This paper examines this question in the context of China’s rapid transformation into major capital exporter. While most political economy scholarship focuses on firms’ economic... View Details
Keywords: Outward Investment; Capital Controls; Investment; Global Range; Capital; Globalization; Policy; Government and Politics; China
Rithmire, Meg. "Going Out or Opting Out? Capital, Political Vulnerability, and the State in China's Outward Investment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-009, June 2019. (Revised January 2021.)
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
the past 27 years, its economy has grown at 1.1% annually, plagued by deflation. After several attempts at quantitative easing, Abe had commenced a radical program in 2012 called Quantitative and Qualitative... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
forthcoming Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press The Academy of Fisticuffs: Political Economy and Commercial Society in Enlightenment Italy By: Reinert, Sophus A.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
forthcoming Journal of Political Economy CEO Behavior and Firm Performance By: Bandiera, Oriana, Stephen Hansen, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
2018 Innovation Policy and the Economy The Orphan Drug Act at 35: Observations and an Outlook for the Twenty-First Century By: Bagley, Nicholas, Benjamin Berger, Amitabh... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
Political Economy Costly Concessions: An Empirical Framework for Matching with Imperfectly Transferable Utility By: Galichon, Alfred, Scott Duke Kominers, and Simon Weber Abstract—We introduce an empirical... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
for firms from industrialized economies and negative effects for firms in other emerging economies, which are less export-intensive and more import-intensive. Motivated by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne